Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arriv….

The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, an….

Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return aga….

A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life….

Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul..

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith..

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn..

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the h….

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought..

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall ….

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!.

Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be ind….

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age..

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence..

I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and ….

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages..

Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, ….

"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored ….

All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated ade….

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal,….

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or ….